American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

Over these years, DL 's reputation grew. She won two successive awards from the magazine Poetry, the Bess Hokin Prize for the title poem of With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads...

This year IM became an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Other honours in 1987 included being made a Companion of Literature, and receiving an Honorary DLitt from Oxford University . Cambridge University awarded her a Honorary LittD in 1993. She received Honorary Fellowships from St Anne's College, Oxford

Selznick and EB had both braced themselves for failure, so they were pleasantly surprised at the glowing reviews after the first night. In the New York Times, for instance, Brooks Atkinson decribed the play...

Although once again most of the poems are in some way funny, WC herself sees this as a bleak book, attentive to the traditional link between poets and suicide.Diana Hendry , reviewing WC

WC was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1993. She is also a member of the American Academy of Letters .

Many critics agree that AD is a formidable writer, at home in intimate psychological worlds as well as in social, historical, and political polemics. Salman Rushdie has named her central subject as solitude, and...

Although MG never attended a post-secondary institution, she was the recipient of at least eight honorary degrees from Canadian universities between 1984 and 1998, in addition to being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

This novel received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Reviewers in Cosmopolitan, the London Review of Books, The Times, the Financial Times...

EW 's literary career was achieved in face of the indifference or disapproval of her relations, who felt that to publish was to lose caste. In 1923 EW was awarded an Honorary DLitt by Yale University

STW was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

MS received many honours, including being made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1963, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978, an Officier de l'Ordre des...

Like To Bedlam and Part Way Back before it, this was nominated for the National Book Award but did not in the end win. It brought Sexton, however, the award of a travelling scholarship from...

In her speech to the American Academy of Arts and Letters , ID took as subject her own life and career.

By this time she relied on stipends from Peggy Guggenheim and Natalie Barney in order to live. She also received money from Samuel Beckett , Janet Flanner , and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters